“It’s a tool. It’s not the answer to you forever losing weight or all the weight. You really have to practice the eating and the exercising before you have the surgery and then continue it afterwards because the surgery alone is not going to do it. You have to do all that work. It’s hard. People think that you took the easy way out. No, it was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. Because you are changing everything: the way you eat, the way you work out.”